Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facing a team that has already taken its measure. On April 21, at Washington, trailing by 6 to 2, the Blue and Gray rose in the eighth inning and smote the offerings of F. B. Cutts '28 for four runs. J. N. Barbee '28 replaced Cutts, and a pinch hitter lined out a double, scoring the tying and winning runs...
...Expressed sincere relief at news that onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald, now visiting the U. S. (TIME, April 18), was rapidly recovering at Philadelphia from his attack of tonsilitis (TIME, Jan. 25), while his daughter, Ishbel Macdonald, pinch-spoke? for her father before various gatherings, which he had promised to address...
...baseball, a "pinch hitter" is one who bats in place of another-usually in a "pinch" (i. e.-a crucial moment in the game...
...extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...
...pass in the second inning, produced two runs, constituted the damage done to the Crimson hurler's delivery during that period. But with two out in the ninth William Ullman '27, University second-sacker, made a high throw to first, drawing J. E. Tobin off the cushion. Two pinch-hitters were rushed into the breach, and each responded with a clean single. Jenkins, Terrier backstop, faced crowded bags and drove in his team's third run with a hard drive to center. The threatening rally was throttled and the game ended when D. MacDonald grounded to Ullman, who nipped...